I've been talking about it and talking about it and talking about it. For how long? Well, it feels like a

decade, but it's been more like two years. Today, all of you finally get to hear about the first

stats arising from the creation of the database.

I'm Ed Denzel, and this is unfound. This episode is going to be a bit wonky, kind of technical, lots of numbers, which I know is horrible given that this is an audio format.

So I realize some of you will be turned off by the whole thing. There's no interview,

there's no disappearance circumstances, there's no narrative or story, there are no theories

to ponder. Yet, if you decide to stick it out, what you will hear today is just as important as any missing

person's case featured on this podcast. Why? Because through these stats, I believe resolutions

to the still unresolved cases can be found.

Not just unfounds, but all disappearances.

In fact, by accumulation and analysis of these stats, I think it's possible to stop

disappearances before they occur.

Because we have to remember, unlike gravity, light, and the

universe itself, disappearances don't have to exist. They don't have to happen. And they surely don't

have to remain unresolved. Then the question is, what can be done to make that

happen, even if we understand theoretically that we may never get to perfection. And along the way,

we might even find out why so many things tried to this point don't work.

And now a summary of how the database came to be.

And I should tell you right now, for the rest of the podcast, I'm just going to be using notes.

I don't have a script necessarily in front of me with full sentences.

So please be forgiving if you hear some you knows and ums and pauses like that.

It all started when I watched the movie Moneyball.

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